Mr Walter, I'm not saying I don't beleive you, but I'd have to see you light a fire as you've described before I stop being a tad skeptical.
Lot a good knowledge passed along in this thread. Only "wisdom" I can add is that when the Sun starts to go down and your a long ways from the comforts of home, you'll be much less likely to panic and get yourself into deep sheet if you have practiced how to make fires with little to nothing, and made a shelter or two out of whatever was lying around.
